Election administrators, elected and government officials, voting systems representatives, and RCV proponents came together for this online symposium focused on:

Best practices and case studies for ranked choice voting (RCV) presented by some of the country’s leading election experts;

Presentations from the nation’s voting system vendors about their latest voting systems and RCV capabilities;

Discussions about RCV and the process for implementing by election administrators who have administered this voting method.

This page now provides links to recordings of each session. Also included are links to question and answer documents with more detailed responses to questions posed during the sessions and links to presentations and other resources used during each session.

Session 3: RCV Case Studies & Future Successes

Held Apr 23, 2018, 2:30–3:30 PM EDT

Leading experts in the academic study of elections present in this session. Robert Montjoy, RCV Resource Center Advisory Board Member and Professor at the University of New Orleans, will present case studies to address why RCV has flourished in some locations, while not in others. Robert Joyce, Professor of Public Law and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government, will look at the use of RCV in North Carolina. Doug Chapin, Director of Program for Excellence in Election Administration/Election Academy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, will share his insights about what locations are on the horizon for RCV.

Representatives from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission discuss the certification process and work to develop updated Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) through the Voting Systems Working Group to include RCV.

Day 2: April 24

Session 5: Informed RCV Voters from Start to Finish

Held Apr 24, 2018, 10:00–11:00 AM EDT

Voter understanding and engagement is the very heart of election administration. From ballot design to results presentation, learn the latest outcomes from usability testing by the Center for Civic Design in partnership with the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center and FairVote. Presenter: Whitney Quesenbery, Co-Director, Center for Civic Design.

McDermot Coutts, Chief Architect and Director of Technical Support at Unisyn Voting Solutions, presents the company's latest voting systems and how these systems can be used for ranked choice voting ballot design and tabulation.

The Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center has partnered with Bright Spots to deliver open source software for jurisdictions to tabulate RCV results with legacy voting equipment, when tabulation software is not available through the voting system vendor, or when a state needs to aggregate results from multiple voting systems. See a demonstration of this software and learn more about how the tabulation process works. Presenters: Louis Eisenberg and Jon Moldover, Bright Spots; Caleb Kleppner, MK Election Services; and George Gilbert, Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center.

Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center

info@rankedchoicevoting.org | 301-270-4616

The Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center provides a compilation of best practices and first-hand experiences from jurisdictions that have used this method of voting. This website and overall project serve as a resource for voters, election administrators, policy makers, and candidates.